Cabinet for phonograph-records.



No. 832,954. PATENTED OCT. 9, 190 6.

P. .BUEHLER.

CABINET FOR PHONOGRAPH RECORDS. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 1906.

PATENT ornron FRED BUEHLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CABINET FOR PHONOGRAPH-RECORDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Ctct. 39 36;

Application filed March 22, 1906. Serial No. 307.314.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRED BUEHLER, a citizen of theUnited States,residing in Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cabinets for Phonograph- Records, of which the followingis a full and correct specification, reference being had to .the heretoaccompanying drawings, forming with they may be kept from injury, beeasily carried, convenientl stored and registere so that any'particul arplate or disk known by its name may be found and locatedfrom an indexwhich forms a part of myv said structure. A

To attain said desirable ends, I construct my said new device insubstantially the following manner, namely: I provide a base a with ahigh back wall b and a low front and inwardly-inclined wall 0, soproportioned that they will just embrace the diametrical dimensions ofvthe disk Z, usually of ten inches in diameter, and from the front edgeof said base rises a toothed or slotted plate-holder (Z, resting itsteeth g on a thin board e at anangle of about forty-five degrees to saidbase and whereof the upper edge rests on the upper edge of said back I)and to which it is suitably secured. Said teeth 9 are held behind theinclined front 0 at their lower ends and their free ends slide on thesaid board e. aid plate-holder and its teeth are preferably covered withsome felt-like materialapplied in any we'll-known way, so as to presenta soft surface to the sides of said prepared plates. an inch thick,while the thickness of each As said plate-holder is about 1 tooth g isonl about an eighth of an inch, more or less, t e lower ends of saidteeth may easily be sprung apart for the purpose of inserting a plate Zinto a slot 9. An index holder it, provided with a hook h, preferablymade of wire, holds, removably, an indexplate t, provided with a footmargin 0)", which has its ends cut away or notched, so as to pass downbetween the sides I) and close to the top of the holder d. Said index isdivided horizontally by'lines 7', between which are vertical rows ofnumerals k, and the man gin i is provided with'a like set of numerals tothose used in the index, which are p referably laced zigzag, as shown,so that V mera s ma be made large and pi rectly at t e end or imaginaryexte each slot 9: The name of the piece prn on the disk Z is writtenafter the numeral the column 7c, and betweenits lines, as in drawin s,the piece named Alice, disk lice, is placed under the in 22 onv themarginal, and. said n written after the numeral on the 'i, that beingthe place said desired disk having said piece is found, namely-in the simarked 22 in the foot mar in 'Z'--an which it must be returned. he indexand its foot-margin are made on suitable paper in the form adapted to beremoved and replaced, enablin the making of changes of pieces, as shown,constructing new indexes.

I What i claim is K The combination with a slotted disk'holder 5 andmeans to hold said holder, and means hold disks, reniovably, in theirslots, of r L index-plate provided with a set of nuine aw in verticalcoiumns with disk-names alter them, and a foot-margin provided withnumerals corresponding to said indcxnumerals, at theends, or prolongedends, of said slots.

FRED BUEHLER.

' Witnesses:-

WM. ZIMMERMAN, FRANK S. GRAHAM.

